With CI partnering with NW, does it mean it will become Skyteam?
May 19, 2007 | 9:11 am
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With CI partnering with NW, does it mean it will become Skyteam?
So China airlines will parnter with NW as of Aug 1 2007. ALready a Delta partner....any chance it'll become Skyteam?
May 19, 2007 | 2:33 pm
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May 19, 2007 | 10:20 pm
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May 21, 2007 | 11:15 pm
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In all seriousness though, I don't know what CI's plan is, but if a Taiwan based carrier entered I'd much rather see Eva than CI. Aside from CI's former safety concerns their 747s show more aging than UA's and that takes some doing.
May 22, 2007 | 8:30 pm
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CI quality can only be judged if you actually make it there... they weren't nicknamed the "Flying Coffin" in Hong Kong without reason.
In all seriousness though, I don't know what CI's plan is, but if a Taiwan based carrier entered I'd much rather see Eva than CI. Aside from CI's former safety concerns their 747s show more aging than UA's and that takes some doing.
In all seriousness though, I don't know what CI's plan is, but if a Taiwan based carrier entered I'd much rather see Eva than CI. Aside from CI's former safety concerns their 747s show more aging than UA's and that takes some doing.
Their F class is also very nice from personal experience.
May 23, 2007 | 5:58 pm
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May 23, 2007 | 9:09 pm
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I don't entirely understand the NW & CO relationship. While I know that NW is a partial owner in CO, they do some very strange things in their business with each other... for instance, NW & CO have recriprocal Elite agreements to give each others elites free upgrades as if they were their own however at the same exact time they have this little spat about 50% eqms on cheap fares flown on the others airline... Now the Eva ff agreement with CO and the CI agreement with NW... they are like a teenage brother and sister.